Below are some pictures of all
the former Falstaff Brewing Corporation sites- Click on Thumbnail to view - thanks to
everyone who sent in photos and to Mike Harris for the tech support! There are more photos
of interest on the Other Photos page.

Updated 3/02/07- New Orleans Photos Added

Former Headquarters St. Louis - torn down a few
years ago, now the site of the St.Louis Science Museum - scan thanks to Don Roussin

The Continental Bank
building- Falstaff once occupied several floors here as a headquarters (unless
noted, pictures are from my collection)

Lemp Buildings
St. Louis 86 - This is where it all started! (note
my cool 1980 Ft. Wayne built IH Scout, this was the last year they were made, it will
appear again!) / Lemp lithograph thanks
to D Roussin and K Kious - Cherokee St - within sight of Anheuser Busch

Lemp 4/2000

Lemp
close ups thanks to Joel Gandt

Some shots of the Lemp Complex, thanks to the Comtesse DeSpair. To see the rest of the pics just
click here and be
instantly transported over / Lemp Postcard sold on eBay

Entrance to Plant Two St. Louis, former
Otto Stiefel Brewery - thanks to Bryan Monaco (most of this was torn down in the 1950s)
(there is an article about the destruction of this plant on the More Photos
page)

Two more shots of Omaha - thanks again to Tom - Plant 3 in 1961 in the
middle thanks to Don Roussin - offices 1955 / entrance 1959 / and stripping out the assets
1992 thanks to Bryan Monaco. The last three shots are from Don Solo's exhibit on the Beer History Site Photo Gallery

(Left) entrance to offices of Plant 4
New Orleans formerly National Brewing - This building has now been cleaned
and refurbished as the "Love Outreach Ministry"... / (Right) The structure on
the top of the tower is the "Weather Ball" which used to give colored weather
forecasts - 2600 Gravier Street

New Orleans 1980s, left thanks to
"the Brewer's Monk" / middle & right to Larry Faucheux. Note on
Larry's middle photo where the tanks had been torn out, this will happen again and
again....

"Big Easy" back in the 1950s &
the brew kettles, thanks again to Bryan

King Gambrinus, the patron of beer, still sits on the throne - New Orleans sign 6/2000

stone work in New Orleans (not a thumbnail)

Some
additional shots of New Orleans 11/2002, this is being used as a steel fab yard
now.

12/18/04 These new pics of the New Orleans plant sent in by Dixie Aldridge

2/17/05 Here is a linen drawing of the
Falstaff brewery in New Orleans when it still was National Brewing. Thanks to
Gregory Ensslen of the Big Easy for the pic!

6/30/05 This great shot of King Gambrinus atop the
former Falstaff brewery in New Orleans toasting the Dixie
Brewery thanks to Chris Branan. For the rest of his pictures of the Falstaff
brewery click here.

The former Columbia Brewing site on the north side of St Louis was
Plant
5, 3 shots from 1986 show it being converted into apartments, also three
shots of the site in 2000 The last nine shots were taken by Joel Gandt in 12/2000.
Apparently the building's super came out and wanted to know why he was taking pictures of
the building. Even after he tried to explain, she absolutely could not fathom why someone
would want to take pictures of a brewery that was no longer producing beer. It's like the
wife always says to me "If I gotta explain it to you, then you won't understand"
Pic of plant 5 in the 19th century from the Beer
History Site - 2000 Madison Street - don't forget to take an Uzi
with you J

Two shots on left, Pacific Brewing &
Malting became Plant 6 San Jose1969 - thanks to Bryan Monaco
- Right, same shot today - Condos instead of a brewery! Thanks to Michael Ostrofsky
for the pic - 1025 W. Julian Street - surprisingly
the old hops silo has been turned into this modernistic home! For the story
click here

Plant 7
Ft.Wayne, IN 1983 formerly Berghoff
Brewing - 1019 Grant Avenue
for more on this plant go over to the Ft Wayne Brewery Tour page

Thumbs of Ft Wayne 8/2000 - most of the
plant has been torn down, the lights are on in the former sales offices but
nobody's home.. dismantling the Ft Wayne plant to ship to Pabst in China - scan thanks to Derek
Oltman, former employee

Galveston brewery
in the early days and in
1956 around the time of the Falstaff purchase. Postcard from the 1960s - thanks to
Derek Oltman & Tom Clark

Galveston, 1986 - billboard had almost completely faded away by then / abandoned semis in
yard

Galveston 1999: certain parts of the brewery are being
renovated / Bottleshop office / view of brewery from
Church St. Brewhouse and brewhouse tower built in 1960, blue building on the upper right
was the hospitality roon. Thanks to Robert Ebert for the
photos.

Galveston brewery 1999 - damage to building caused where S&P pulled brewhouse tanks
out to be shipped to China (PBR is available throughout China, brewed with this equipment)
-Galveston offices today - thanks again to Robert
Ebert

View of Plant 11 malting operations near Chicago
(torn down recently) from the Chicago Skyway this was the former Albert Schwill & Co.,
at one time the largest manufacturers of malt in the world - Thanks to Larry Faucheux for
the shot!

My pics of Chicago (taken hanging out from the car on the freeway!)
1980s

Some nice shots of
Plant 11 while it was still standing and during its destruction. Great pics
thanks to Michael Stanich of Mike's Photography in Whiting, IN. To contact
Michael to purchase copies of these pics, click here

Three nice shots of Plant 12 Cranston, RIpreviously
Narragansett Brewing late 1980s - many thanks to Tom Clark! Inside the Trolley Barn building 1999, the only structure -
thanks to Bob Hedlund and a black & white shot of the plant from the ABA - Cranston & Garfield Ave.

Falstaff operated the old Burgie plant in San Francisco
from 1972-1975. It was then spun off to Paul Kalmanovitz who operated it as a
General Brewing plant until '78, scan thanks to Bryan Monaco. The plant started
its life as the Milwaukee Brewery and after a number of name changes became the
Burgermeister Brewing Company. Schlitz and Meister Brau of Chicago owned this
plant before it was purchased by Falstaff.

Two pics on left S.F. again in 1977 - thanks to Robert Ebert for
lending me the pictures Right: S.F.
being torn down & same site today -- a CostCo parking lot instead of a
brewery - Thanks to Michael Ostrofsky for both shots (though he was a bit blinded by the
sun on the right!) (Isn't there a Joni Mitchell song about this: "they tore down the brewery and
put up a parking lot....") 432
10th Street

While technically
not a Falstaff brewery, Falstaff was brewed at Pearl in San Antonio for the last 10
years. Robert Ebert took these shots just before the plant was closed April 2nd
2001. Apparently the gift shop will remain open. Left to right ; visitor's entrance /gift
shop/south side of plant from gift shop/offices/outside of Jersey Lilly saloon /
inside of Jersey Lilly / Falstaff products on display. The round building in
picture #5 were the stables, which was built in 1894. 312 Pearl Parkway, San
Antonio, TX.

Here is a drawing of the old P
Ballantine Brewery in NJ - Falstaff purchased the brands but never
operated the brewery. It was located at Ferry & Freeman streets in Newark,
some of the buildings are still standing and being used commercially

You will note that a lot of the Falstaff / General Brewing
equipment ended up at the Pabst plant in China. Here is a picture of plant 0ne
in china, which is no longer used. It is the former lucky plant in Vancouver,
WA. the picture on the left is the brewkettle from the plant. Thanks to Andrew
Fratianni, the brewmaster of Pabst, China. 11/06/04 On the right are the Ft
Wayne brew kettles, they were removed from the Pabst China Brewery in late 2000
due to a lack of experienced maintenance personnel in China. There were plans to
use them in a visitors center but now they sit forlorn in southern china. These
kettles brewed many a falstaff for your webguy in the 1970s...

Deceased Texas Breweries

04/19/04 Some shots I have taken in my
travels around Texas. Most normal guys I know head for a bar or a nice dinner
after they are done with work. I look for old breweries.....(l) Lone Star Brewing - San Antonio started 1884, (m)
Pearl Brewing - San Antonio started 1883, (r) the former Joseph Schlitz later
Stroh's brewery in Longview

4/19/04 But here's one
Texas brewery the "Axis of Evil" Budmillercoors (just kidding) couldn't kill
off. Ol' Spoetzel Brewing in Shiner, TX is still going strong and brewing some
mighty fine handcrafted grog. If you can't have a Falstaff, when you belly up
to the bar order yourself up a Shiner Bock, OK hoss? Them kettles are "purdier"
than a Permian Basin sunset. If you'd like the whole Spoetzl story, you can read
my article in the latest issue of the American Breweriana Journal (right) Texas Bluebonnets in bloom on
the highway to the brewery - just showing I have a sensitive side too.